Usually we get big bills and very little understanding of what is happening to us or a loved one and the results are usually far from what we would like them to be.
So as I said before we have to become our own doctors/healers. And that is a lot of work and commitment. But it is worth it when you can help someone you love in their time of need is it not. Look within this blog and learn. The choices are always your own.
So many people come here and take away so little. I read comments about this person or that person having need of help but hardly ever read about someone using what they could find here to help themselves or their loved ones. You have to take responsibility for yourself and your family or loved ones. Do not look to me or someone else. Look to yourself and ask yourself if you are all talk when it comes to caring about what is happening to you or someone you care about or if you want to do the walk? Are you all hat and no cattle or what? Just thought I would throw in that western expression. It means you look like a cowboy but you ain't.
One of mys favorite teachers use to say."If you want to help people, do more, talk less."
Above is our Australian dingo cattle dog, Baraan. The foot and leg belong to my much loved step-son, Asher.
A loving dog or cat can do more for people than most doctors.
Doctor Buddha
Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and of the world. It looks at things objectively. It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.
One physician may gravely exaggerate an illness and give up hope altogether. Another may ignorantly declare that there is no illness and that no treatment is necessary, thus deceiving the patient with false consolation. You may call the first one pessimistic and the second optimistic. Both are equally dangerous. But a third physician diagnoses the symptoms correctly, understands the cause and the nature of the illness, sees clearly that it can be cured and courageously administers a course of treatment, thus saving his patient. The Buddha is like the last physician. He is the wise and scientific doctor for the ills of the world.
- Walpola Rahula, What the Buddha Taught
from Everyday Mind, a Tricycle book edited
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